PHP on IIS: Root Level Access with Multiple Domains

[petermcphee]

Hey there, I've created a PHP testing environment on my PC using IIS. The default web root directory is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.

Every domain that I test sits underneath it, like:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Site1
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Site2

etc...

The problem that I'm having is that in my PHP code, sometimes I would like to include files by referencing them at the root level, i.e. include(‘/somefile.php’). This of course works on the production Apache web server, however, on my local installation the ‘/’ refers to the ‘wwwroot’ directory instead of the domain (or folder).

Is there a way to configure IIS to look at each folder as the root?

What I tried was creating a Virtual Directory inside IIS and mapped this to each folder/domain. But this didn’t work unfortunately.

Any ideas?

[bradgrafelman]

I wouldn't think that that code would even work on the production server. When you use an absolute path beginning with '/', I would think that you're telling PHP to go to the root of the hard drive.

That's why I either use relative paths or something like this:

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/somefile.php');